I am in my 3rd or 4th week of budding and my plant is not expected to be done until the end of october, early november. The strain is nevilles haze and it is a cross of haze and northern lights. I live in New England, and we had a frost in my area last night, i just checked the plant and took some new pictures and it seems to be doing fine. I do not want to take any chances with the weather and want to keep it outside till it is done and do not want to harvest early. Supposedly this is one of the harder strains to grow because of such a long flowering period(12-14 weeks). The plant has been alive for almost a year and has already been flowered once inside. Anyways i was thinking of setting up some sort of shelter/greenhouse around it to try and keep it a little warmer and protect it from the frost. Has anyone had to do this before. I do not have the ability to go out before a frost and cover my plant up and uncover it in the morning. It is in the ground so i cannot bring it in at night. If anyone has any advice on how i could shelter it. I was thinking of buying some wooden or metal posts and pretty much making a box frame around it and then getting some type of see through plastic sheet to put around it. Does this sound like a good idea? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks Here are the latest pics
when i had a few cold night (down in the high 30s) i covered my plant with a clear tarp, i did the same for rainstorms too. it a very good idea to do that to your plant when it gets cold and night or if it about to rain.
im not talking about just putting a clear tarp up at night, i want to build a structure around it and leave the clear tarp on. i cannot go out everyday to check on this and remove anything
<TABLE class=tborder style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px" cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=6 width="100%" align=center border=0><TBODY><TR title="Post 1861353" vAlign=top><TD class=alt1 align=middle width=125>apietroski8</TD><TD class=alt2>long flowering plant in new england <HR>I am in my 3rd or 4th week of budding and my plant is not expected to be done until the end of october, early november. The strain is nevilles haze and it is a cross of haze and northern lights. I live in New England, and we had a frost in my area last night, i just checked the plant and took some new pictures and it seems to be doing fine. I do not want to take any chances with the weather and want to keep it outside till it is done and do not want to harvest early. Supposedly this is one of the harder strains to grow because of such a long flowering period(12-14 weeks). The plant has been alive for almost a year and has already been flowered once inside. Anyways i was thinking of setting up some sort of shelter/greenhouse around it to try and keep it a little warmer and protect it from the frost. Has anyone had to do this before. I do not have the ability to go out before a frost and cover my plant up and uncover it in the morning. It is in the ground so i cannot bring it in at night. If anyone has any advice on how i could shelter it. I was thinking of buying some wooden or metal posts and pretty much making a box frame around it and then getting some type of see through plastic sheet to put around it. Does this sound like a good idea? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks Here are the latest pics </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> The clear tarp thing worked for me in the past, should work for you to. The only difference is I made my tarp for the spring and not the fall. It should work though. Like you were saying get some posts and make a tent around it. Just make sure that the tarp is tied down well, considering you won’t be out there much. You wouldn't want to go back to your site to find the tarp blown over and your plants smothered. Also, poke a couple holes in the tarp so the tent can breathe. 14 weeks Id say that’s a long budder, why would you grow a strain with such a long budding time? Next year get some strains that take between 6 to 10 weeks. This way you won’t have to worry about this again. Unless your growing in Mexico or around there
i did not really choose to grow this strain, i was given a few seeds and i didnt know anything about how long the budding was until i grew it and did some research. Thanks for the reply green first. Def next year i will get strains that will be done in september. Anybody have any estimates on how much yield i may get. Im hoping at least a couple ounces, may be too early to tell.
building a frame around the plant(s) and stretching some clear plastic sounds like it would work unless it came a hard frost. There is a technique some northern gardeners use called a wall of water. There are commercially available water tubes, or you could make your own with garbage bags. The idea is that the water absorbs the heat during the day and releases it overnight. http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fourseason/msg050945215109.html
thats a old dutch trick I know it works for larg crops I cant see why it could'nt be scaled down to work for a a few plants good Idea!! cheers Scooter
Any people who stick their fingers in dikes are alright by me Lot's of tomato growers from up north swear by it to get a jump on the planting season.
I'm in the same situation, although we got the frost warning and got nothing, we should be good for the next week at least. I don't expect mine to finish until late october early november either, which is why I put them in pots. However in your case I've heard people doing a few different things, if you're hardcore, then the night of the frost you could go out to your plants at like midnight or 2 and water them with warm water to keep the roots from getting destroyed, I've never done it. One other thing you could do is build up the mulch around the base to help protect it from the frost and keep it warmer. Word of advice, this is the time of year last year when I got powdery mildew, keep on the look out, it's because the dew and moisture in the air, it sucks.